Facebook is taking employee virtual walkout very seriously: Tech reporter

Some Facebook employees staged a virtual walkout to protest CEO Mark Zuckerberg's decision to allow recent posts by President Trump to remain on the platform. Ed Lee, corporate media reporter for the New York Times, and Alex Kantrowitz, author of the newsletter "Big Technology" and former Buzzfeed senior tech reporter, join "Squawk Box" to discuss.

Hundreds of Facebook employees on Monday staged a “virtual walkout” in protest of the company’s policies regarding recent posts by President Donald Trump.

Employees took to Twitter to publicly announce their participation in the protest, referring to the virtual walkout with #TakeAction. These employees expressed disappointment and shame in the decision by Facebook’s leaders to leave up a Thursday post from Trump in which the president said that “when the looting starts, the shooting starts.”

As many as 600 employees partook in the virtual protest, estimated one employee who spoke with CNBC. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg plans to hold a town hall with employees on Tuesday to address the situation, the employee said. This person asked not to be named discussing internal matters with press.

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